Y'all must be holding a few dozen sats to get so worked up about spending a few hundred in a dedicated Bitcoin PC. I have a HP desktop mini, with a 6th gen i7 (low power T-series), 32 GB of RAM, and NVME SSD. Cost about $500.
Runs Ubuntu, my Bitcoin node, and a bunch of other related things. I'm a Linux noob, and I was able to figure it out.
I think people got carried away with the Blockchain wars meme about "you can run Bitcoin on a pi" and thought that was actually an idea solution.
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I listened yesterday. I have toyed with the idea of getting more robust hardware and getting off tor and switching to a VPN. I still feel technically challenged and am not sure I'm ready to take off the umbrel training wheels yet. I thought the episode was fair in its criticisms of the pi.
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Cheers to @MattHill for being more specific than K3tan.
Sad to hear about their issues with Raspberry Pi power management on shoddy grids/wires. Probably quite very edge case but with enough customers it becomes an issue.
ElectRS might need some tuning to be kinder to the Pi's. At least it's written in Rust and not Python/JS.
I still think being able to run as an uncle Jim using a Pi is drawing an important line in the sand. A PC is too elastic a definition, allowing too much bloat/cost to accumulate at a more rapid pace.
Using Postgres to store service versions etc seems a bit overkill. Maybe it was the power issues making SQLite malfunction, or possibly there’s some flushing to disk command that could be used. Please excuse the speculation. Have the impression the SQLite is some of the most robust software out there.
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For me there is no player for this episode.
Brave Browser.
For other episodes (eg this one; https://stephanlivera.com/episode/352/) it DOES appear.
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ok it's working now, random.
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Matt Hill of Start9 rejoins me on the show to chat about the recent show on Bitcoin nodes with K3tan. We chat:
  • What's the actual risk with Raspberry Pi's? 
  • Where do they hit their bottleneck? 
  • What about more performant nodes? 
  • What about DIY? 
  • EmbassyOS and new EmbassyPro device
  • Should you separate bitcoin and non-bitcoin applications? 
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On Mastodon / Pleroma (Fediverse), follow: @stephanlivera@bitcoinhackers.org
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Y'all must be holding a few dozen data to get so worked up about spending a few hundred in a dedicated Bitcoin PC. I have a HP desktop mini, with a 6th gen i7 (low power T-series), 32 GB of RAM, and NVME SSD. Cost about $500.
Runs Ubuntu, my Bitcoin node, and a bunch of other related things. I'm a Linux noob, and I was able to figure it out.
I think people got carried away with the Blockchain wars meme about "you can run Bitcoin on a pi" and thought that was actually an idea solution.
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